Pixilated digital television: a giant step backwards
by James K. Sayre
Pixilated digital television, forced on us by the greedy federal government and greedy private media corporations, is a giant step backwards for the American consumer.
Dump pixilated digital television. Return our fine analog over-the-air television broadcasts. I live in Oakland, just across the bay from San Francisco; I used to get fifteen over-the-air broadcasts from local stations. Their fine and clear; sometimes I could even get faint signals from as far away as Salinas, Santa Rosa and Sacramento.
Now, in the age of digital television broadcasts, I get some thirty-six channels; most the new ones are either in Spanish or Chinese, of no value to about 85% of the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area. We are even treated to two local weather channels; just what we don't need: we live in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has a very benign climate. If you want to know the weather, just look out the window or gasp, go outdoors!
KCSM, Channel 60, from San Mateo, has decided to broadcast its jazz radio broadcasts on television. What a waste of bandwidth. In addition, the picture version features an endless repetition of local Bay Area temperatures. How annoying can you get?
Is the forced conversion of analog over-the-air television broadcasts into digital just a way to force television viewers to subscribe to cable or satellite television services in order to get decent reception?
The worst part of digital television, beside the fact that the range of broadcast reception has been reduced in half from about sixty miles to about thirty miles, is the constant pixilating or breaking up of the digital signal, both video and audio. What an annoyance. Give up on this digital television experiment. It is an abject failure. Give us back our reliable and watchable analog over-the-air broadcast television.
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